5-letter words that end in k
- duduk — (musical instruments) An Armenian woodwind instrument.
- ebook — a book in digital form.
- epick — Archaic spelling of epic.
- farik — young wheat that has been fire-roasted, then threshed and dried: usually cooked by boiling.
- fdisk — (operating system, tool) (Fixed disk utility) An MS-DOS utility program which prepares a hard disk so that it can be used as a boot disk and file systems can be created on it. OS/2, NT, Windows 95, Linux, and other Unix versions all have this command or something similar.
- flack — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flank — the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.
- flask — the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- fleak — A flake; a thread or twist.
- fleck — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fleek — flawlessly styled, groomed, etc.; looking great: eyebrows that stay on fleek; her totally on-fleek outfit.
- flick — a motion picture.
- flisk — a whim; a fancy
- flock — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- flook — A fluke of an anchor.
- flunk — to fail in a course or examination.
- frack — Used as a euphemism for ‘fuck’.
- frank — direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- freak — a fleck or streak of color.
- freck — (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
- frick — Henry Clay, 1849–1919, U.S. industrialist, art patron, and philanthropist.
- frink — /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup news:alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare gorets.
- frisk — to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic: The dogs and children frisked about on the lawn.
- frock — a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
- frosk — (dialectal) A frog.
- glaik — a flash of light
- glark — /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork was already an established jargon term. Compare grok, zen.
- gleek — to make a joke; jest.
- glisk — a glimpse
- glock — a type of pistol
- glook — (rare,chiefly,AAVE) Alternative form of glug (sound made when a liquid is poured out of a jug or bottle).
- glork — /glork/ 1. Used as a name for just about anything. See foo. 2. Similar to glitch, but usually used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." See also glark.
- gluck — Alma (Reba Fiersohn; Mme. Efrem Zimbalist) 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.
- gopak — a folk dance of the Ukraine.
- gopik — A monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to one hundredth of a manat.
- greek — of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.
- grick — /grik/ (WPI, first used by Tim Haven to describe "grick trigonometry", a shortcut method of determing attack angles in grid-based games like Star Trek) Any integral increment of measurement. E.g. "Please turn the stereo up a few gricks".
- gronk — /gronk/ Popularised by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that. 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than "to frob" (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk".
- hacek — a diacritical mark (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.
- hasek — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔˌslɑf/ (Show IPA), 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer.
- hayek — Friedrich August von [free-drik aw-guh st von;; German free-drikh ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈfri drɪk ˈɔ gəst vɒn;; German ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1992, British economist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1974.
- hbook — A histogramming package in the CERN program library.
- hoick — Lift or pull abruptly or with effort.
- hopak — gopak.
- hurok — Sol(omon) 1888–1974, U.S. impresario, born in Russia.
- husak — Gustáv [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, Czechoslovak political leader: first secretary of the Communist Party 1969–87; president 1975–89.
- izzak — a male given name, form of Isaac.
- kaiak — an Eskimo canoe with a skin cover on a light framework, made watertight by flexible closure around the waist of the occupant and propelled with a double-bladed paddle.
- kamik — a mukluk made of sealskin.
- kanak — a native or inhabitant of New Caledonia who seeks independence from France